Idris Elba: Hey there, how'd you get to be so cool? Malcolm Taylor/Getty Images Entertainment
by Linda Holmes
As if my tenth-grade-girl's heart doesn't have enough to contend with given that Paul Rudd was on with Jon Stewart last night (my name is written on my Trapper Keeper as "Mrs. Holmes-Rudd-Stewart"), now Idris Elba is coming to The Office. Come on! That's just sensory overload. Specifically, it overloads my sense of what is awesome.
Idris Elba played Stringer Bell on The Wire, where he was...appealingly murderous? I guess? Gorgeously menacing? Hey, I don't make the rules. And he's done much other highly regarded dramatic work as well.
And now, he's on Fresh Air, where he will undoubtedly elaborate on his career and his Scrantonicity and perhaps answer the hardball question on so many of our minds: What's it like to be so great?
categories: Television
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